|
News |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The 2005 Alumni Awards will be presented at Alumni Convocation at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 4, in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Political journalist David Broder (A.B.,’47, A.M.,’51), winner of the 2005 Alumni Medal, will give the convocation address. Other members of the alumni community who will be honored for their service to the University and to the communities in which they live and work are featured below.
The Alumni Medal
Created in 1941, the Alumni Medal is awarded to recognize achievement
of an exceptional nature in any field, vocational or voluntary, covering
an entire career. It is the highest honor the Alumni Association can
bestow. Because the value of the medal is defined by its recipients, it
has been given sparingly. The medal is awarded to no more than one
person each year and need not be awarded on an annual basis.
David Broder (A.B.,’47, A.M.,’51) is the national political correspondent for The Washington Post whose twice-weekly column on American political life is syndicated in more than 300 newspapers around the world. Additionally, millions of television viewers watch Broder’s regular appearances on NBC’s Meet the Press and CNN’s Inside Politics.
Among numerous awards, his work earned the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for distinguished commentary, and in the years since, he has continued to be acclaimed for his integrity, factual accuracy and insight. Before joining The Washington Post in 1966, Broder covered national politics for The New York Times, The Washington Star and Congressional Quarterly. He has reported on every national campaign and convention since 1960, traveling up to 100,000 miles each election year to interview voters and report on the candidates.
Broder has mentored young journalists, many of them fellow Chicago graduates. Recently he formalized this teaching role as a professor of political reporting at the University of Maryland. He is the author of seven acclaimed books, among them Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How News Is Made (1981), The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point (1996), and most recently, Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money (2000).
Broder is universally admired by journalists, politicians and academics, and one of his admirers enthusiastically thanked the University for “sharing him with the world” and deemed him “a national treasure.” Others writing in support of his nomination called him, “the embodiment of the very best values of the very best journalists: brave, honest, independent, fair,” who sets the “ethical gold standard in journalism.”
The Alumni Service Medal
The Alumni Service Medal was established in 1983 to honor a lifetime
of achievement in service to the University.
Since his graduation from the Law School more than 60 years ago, Maurice Fulton (A.B.,’40, J.D.,’42) has demonstrated an unwavering devotion to the University through his volunteer positions and wide-ranging philanthropic commitments...
The Young Alumni Service Citations
The Young Alumni Service Citations—awarded for the first time
during the 1992 University Centennial—acknowledge outstanding
volunteer service to the University by individuals aged 35 and younger.
Kathleen Abbott (A.B.,’95) provided energetic alumni leadership. A three-sport varsity athlete, she continues to support women’s athletics and helped plan the Graduate Women’s Athletic Association 100th anniversary celebration in 2004...
Eboni Howard (A.B.,’92) began her service to Chicago athletics as an undergraduate, when she served as captain of the women’s basketball team and president of the Women’s Athletic Association...
Greg Miarecki (A.B.,’94, J.D.,’97), who served as student government finance chair and was an active member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, has helped revive significant campus traditions, including the annual inter-fraternity council sing competition. The oldest such competition in the country, Chicago’s IF Sing began in the 1920s and drew hundreds of Greek alumni back to campus each spring.
Concerned by dwindling support for the competition, in the late 1990s, Miarecki forged a coalition of alumni, fraternity leaders and University administrators to revive the IF Sing tradition. His leadership has helped to return the IF Sing to Hutchinson Courtyard, and it is once again a marquee event during Alumni Weekend. Its success has helped draw more Greek alumni back to campus and has increased interaction between alumni, students and faculty.
Miarecki has worked with current students to promote Greek life at Chicago and to ensure the vitality of his own fraternity, encouraging leadership and service to the University.